Sweet ... Hannah says yes!

With an eye on the public attention that cane bale farmer Graham MacIntyre received at Christmas with his smiley face and reindeer-painted cane bales just up the road, Ty wrote his marriage proposal to his sweetheart, Hannah Rogers, in letters four metres high and 40 metres long – on sugar cane bales.

It was a simple enough message – “Hannah, will you marry me” – and it worked.

“I wanted to do something big, something special, something no one had done before,” Ty said. The sign went up on Monday evening after Ty’s friends came around to paint the message.

“I took Hannah for breakfast yesterday morning, then created a ‘random’ motorbike ride in the cane,” Ty said.

“I blind-sided her coming round the sign then pulled up. She was a little gob-smacked – then she accepted.”

Mr MacIntyre said Ty approached him two or three weeks ago with the idea.

“He had the idea in his head and I had to stack the bales anyway, so I thought he might as well use them,” he said.

“I’m becoming one of the more famous farmers on the Coast – and I’m still single,” he quipped.